17 Quotes by Eve Chase

I do have a teenager, and I know that teenagers don't come with instruction manuals.

I think adults must get sort of worn away over time, like rocks out at sea, but remain who they are, just slower and grayer with those funny vertical wrinkles in front of their ears. But the young are a different shape from one week to the next. To know us is to run alongside us, like someone trying to shout through the window of a moving train.

Her complexion still undimmed by motherhood's broken nights.

I wonder if we're only our true selves as children, before life starts to go wrong.

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.

We may not have a new roof by then. But we will have flowers. Far more important, wouldn't you agree?

Her judgemental younger self has no idea that she will have a daughter too one day, and that the thought of her little girl ever leaving home will make her feel like weeping.

I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.